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: herbage suitable or used for grazing animals

: any of a large family (Gramineae synonym Poaceae) of monocotyledonous mostly herbaceous plants with jointed stems, slender sheathing leaves, and flowers borne in spikelets of bracts

: land (such as a lawn or a turf racetrack) covered with growing grass

keep off the grass

the horse had never won on grass

grasses plural : leaves or plants of grass

: a state or place of retirement

put out to grass

[short for grasshopper, rhyming slang for copper] British slang : a police informer

: electronic noise on a radarscope that takes the form of vertical lines resembling lawn grass

: marijuana

grassless

ˈgras-ləs

adjective

grasslike

ˈgras-ˌlīk

adjective

grass

2 of 2

verb

grassed; grassing; grasses

transitive verb

: to feed (livestock) on grass sometimes without grain or other concentrates

: to cover with grass

especially : to seed to grass

intransitive verb

: to produce grass

British slang : inform sense 1

—often used with on

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Examples of grass in a Sentence

NounThey were smoking some grass.Verbthat bloke would grass on his own mater to save himself

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Noun

Their conflict has killed more than 28,000 people, forced millions to flee their homes and left some families eating grass in a desperate attempt to survive as famine sweeps parts of the country.—Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025Atwater and his son were the last caretakers of the lot, mowing the grass and making sure the property taxes were paid.—Ben Wieder, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025Verb

Zink takes the time to camouflage, paying attention to every detail, grassing the chicken-wire frame of his boat blind with natural vegetation.—Joe Arterburn, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024During the Clearances, thousands of peasant farmers were evicted to make way for industrial-scale sheep farming, their fields grassed, and woods razed for pasture.—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024See all Example Sentences for grass

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English gras, from Old English græs; akin to Old High German gras grass, Old English grōwan to grow

First Known Use

Noun

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

circa 1500, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Time Traveler

The first known use of grass was before the 12th century

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graspless

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Kids Definition

grass

1 of 2noun

ˈgras

: herbs suitable for or eaten by grazing animals

: any of a large family of green plants (as wheat, corn, bamboo, or sugarcane) with jointed usually hollow stems, long slender leaves, and small dry one-seeded fruits often in groups

: grass-covered land

especially : lawn entry 2

: marijuana

grasslike

-ˌlīk

adjective

grassy

ˈgras-ē

adjective

grass

2 of 2verb

: to seed with grass